CBI hands over Jayanthi forest land case to IT dept
Sources said the tax authorities had requested the CBI to hand over the files to the former for their probe into the case.
New Delhi: The CBI on Tuesday handed over to the Income Tax (IT) Department crucial documents pertaining to a case of the alleged irregularities in giving clearance to a mine in Jharkhand, against former Union environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan.
According to sources, a team of the CBI and I-T officials reached Ms Jayanthi’s residence in Chennai and handed over the records to the IT sleuths.
The documents were seized and kept sealed by the CBI at the former minister’s residence following the searches there in September this year, they added.
Sources said the tax authorities had requested the CBI to hand over the files to the former for their probe into the case.
The CBI had booked Ms Jayanthi for alleged abuse of her official position in diverting forest land for a steel plant in the state by which she violated the law.